How come its gonna take USA another 13 years to reach the silver planet with all todays age of new gizmo and technology....

When i see Russia or China or anyother country sticking there flag into the moon then i will be a 100% sure. But i can't believe America hasn't been back there for at least 30 years (WHY THE RUSH?)

How did we get there? With alot of hardwork, ingenuity and money....not to mention a Saturn V multistage liquid-fuel rocket.

Why's it going to take another 13 years? Pretty simple really. We're not going to go there using the apollo era technology are we? No, so that means.....yup thats right. We have to make an entirely new vehicle to get us there. Its not like they can just land a shuttle on the surface. With all the problems they're having with the shuttles at the moment, I'd say that safety considerations would also be a large part of the time being spent. Lastly....the first time around it was a space "race" this time, they're the only ones planning on making the trip, why rush??

Why haven't they been back in the last thirty years? Well think of it like this. NASA gets a certain amount of funding, and out of that funding they dedicate varying slices of the pie to different projects. Out of 20 Apollo missions only 17 left the ground. The last three missions were cancelled. The shuttle missions became the new priority not long after the end of the apollo missions. What does that mean? It means that they had new priorities and therefore money had to be taken from the apollo missions to other projects.

Man certainly did land on the moon pawndog and I reckon it wasn't the first time, at least that "a human being" landed there. What we hear is not what actually happens. They like us to know only what they want us to.

Have they been back? Probably but as far as we know, they haven't.

Mars seems to be a topic of discussion for the cunnts. They may se more reason to go there

And i do agree Migya even though i am skeptical about them actually landing on the moon i do think they could have been back without telling anyone.

If there is one conspiracy i do "THINK ABOUT" <not> it's that man never landed on the moon and that those images were nothing but a Hollywood filmset shot at Area 51 (Why is Area 51 off bounds?? Cause they don't want anyone finding the old Apollo landing set)

But Breezer79 you did bring up a valid point about NASA spending in terms of sending man or probe to the dark places in this university, it's more economically viable to send a camera and robotic rock collecter then it is to send a fulll blooded yankee.

Noone knows what they do because who has presence in outer space? Noone!

Yea money is an issue but the U.S. has more than anyone and it's not like they open there expenditure book for all to see! How do we know what costs what and if some prototype cost millions or just thousands.

Who gives a shiit, there's enough shiit going on here so no need to worry about outer space

Did MR Armstrong take a crap and flood the lunar floor with his diareaoha cause last time i remembered the moon was the offical colour of the Oakland Raiders and not that evil colour of the Cleveland Browns?